Asa AUTA, Simeon OMALE, Nwamaka C ANUKAM, Comfort N SARİEM

Patentli İlaç Satıcılarının Müşterileri: İlaç Kullanım Davranışı

AMAÇ: Çalışmanın amacı, patentli ilaç satıcılarının (PMV) müşterilerinin kendi kendini tedavi ve ilaç paylaşımı dâhil bazı ilaç kullanım davranışlarını araştırmaktır. YÖNTEM: Tanımlayıcı, kesitsel bir çalışma Temmuz 2011'de Jos Üniversitesi Nijerya'da son bir ay içerisinde PMV'leri ziyaret eden 361 öğrenci arasında yürütüldü. Ön denemesi yapılmış bir soru formu katılımcı öğrencilere uygulandı. Katılımcılar demografik özellikler ve ilaç kullanım davranışı hakkında soruları yanıtladı. Veriler SPSS version 16 kullanılarak analiz edildi, tanımlayıcı istatistiklerde yüzdelikler kullanıldı. BULGULAR: Sonuçlar gösterdi ki; Katılımcıların %91,7'si kendi kendini tedavi etmek için genel kullanılan ilaçları almak için PMV'leri ziyaret etti. Bunlardan %38,4'ü analjezik, %22,2'si antimalaryal ve %14,1'i besin/kan preparatları talep etti. PMV'lerin müşterilerine satılan ilaçların %78,5'i orijinal ambalajındaydı. Sadece %45,9'u kullanmadan önce son kullanım tarihini kontrol ettiğini beyan etti. İlaç paylaşım davranışı %60,2 ile katılımcılar arasında oldukça yüksekti. Çoğunluğunun (%70,2) geçmişte ilaç prospektüsünü okuduğunu söylemesine rağmen, yine de pek çoğu ilaç bilgi kaynağı olarak güvenilir olmayan arkadaş/akraba (%23,2), medya (%23,2) ve internet (%9,9) gibi kaynaklara bel bağlıyorlardı. SONUÇ: Çalışma, PMV müşterileri arasında kendi kendini tedavi etme ve ilaç paylaşma davranışı yüksek olduğunu ortaya koydu.

Patent Medicine Vendors' Clients: Medicine Use Behaviour

AIM: To investigate some medicine use behaviour of Patent Medicine Vendors' (PMVs) clients including self medication practice and medication sharing behaviour. METHOD: A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted in July 2011, on 361 undergraduate students of the University of Jos, Nigeria who visited PMVs within a month preceding the study. A pretested questionnaire was administered to participating students. Participants responded to questions on demography, and medicine use behaviour. Data were entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 to generate descriptive statistics which were represented in percentages. RESULTS: The results showed that majority of the respondents (91.7%) visited the PMVs for selfmedication with the common classes of medicines procured by PMVs clients including analgesics (38.4%), antimalarials (22.2%) and nutrition/blood preparations (14.1%). About 78.5% of the medicines sold to PMVs clients were in their original package and only 45.9% of clients reported checking the expiry date of their procured medicine prior to use. Medication sharing behaviour was common (60.2%) among respondents. Although most respondents (70.2%) said they had read a medicine information leaflet in the past, majority of them depended on unreliable sources such as friends/relatives (23.2%), media (10.8%) and the internet (9.9%) for medicine information. CONCLUSION: The study therefore demonstrated that PMV clients are those on self-medication and medication sharing behaviour is high among them.

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